Matthew Bronnimann's project on "An Essential Transmembrane Domain and GxxxG Motifs Within Papillomavirus L2" The University of Arizona's Undergraduate Biology Research Program (UBRP) is an...
Meditative Tone with Binaural Beats and Water Sounds
Hair cells are the primary receptor cells for sound and are responsible for our sense of hearing. Hair cells do not normally regenerate after damage and their loss is a major cause of deafness. We sho...
Argonaute Decoy Breaks the Silence - Argonaute proteins silence gene expression by binding small RNAs. Now, Xiuren Zhang and colleagues discover that AGO10 in plants achieves the opposite effect: it b...
Not miRly a Knockout - Drs. Wang and Olson discuss their work on miR-129, as well as the general idea that gene loci encoding both a protein and an intronic microRNA commonly share regulated expressio...
NAMPT-Mediated NAD+ Biosynthesis Is Essential for Vision In Mice, Lin et al., Photoreceptor death is the endpoint of many blinding diseases. Identifying unifying pathogenic mechanisms in these disease...
Aneuploidy via Telomere Attrition - Telomere dysfunction and aneuploidy are both common features of cancer cells. But are they causally linked? Watch and listen as Titia de Lange and Teresa Davoli tak...
Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry
Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry. Ana Soto speaks about “Endocrine Disruptors: Cancer as Development Gone Awry” at the Cell Press/AWIS LabLinks meeting on The Gender of Science an...
Gain Control in Olfactory Circuits - All sensory systems must control the gain of incoming signals. Watch and listen as Rachel Wilson and colleagues take you on a personally guided tour of their study...
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11)
Microbial Invasions / Trends in Microbiology November 2015 (Vol. 23 Issue 11) - Cyrus Mallon and Joana Salles discuss how microbial invasions follow a universal process of introduction, establishment,...
Hearing in a Jumping Spider/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 13, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21)
Hearing in a Jumping Spider/ Curr. Biol., Oct. 13, 2016 (Vol. 26, Issue 21) - Jumping spiders (Salticidae) are famous for their visually driven behaviors [ 1 ]. Here, however, we present behavioral an...
PLANTS review on Improving Water-Use Efficiency in Plants
Created by and featuring author John C. Cushman.
Read the Review article in the May 2014 issue of Trends in Plant Science at http://bit.ly/1fnhyA7. You can also read a short interview with the author ...
Decoding Attention from Prefrontal Neuronal Ensembles
Decoding Attention from Prefrontal Neuronal Ensembles - This video provides evidence of the role of the primate lateral prefrontal cortex on allocating covert attention. The authors demonstrate that t...
